Walking Methods

This book introduces and critically explores walking as an innovative method for doing social research, showing how its sensate and kinaesthetic attributes facilitate connections with lived experiences, journeys and memories, communities and identities.

Introduction Part I: Theorizing/Observing/Thinking 1. Methods on the Move: Moving Methods 2. Theorizing Walking in the Sociological Imagination - Walking in Context 3. Walking, Art-Making and Biographical Research Exercise One: Walking and Theorizing - Observing/Thinking Part II: Experiencing 4. Migration, Memory and Place - Connecting with Memory and Place in Urban Landscapes 5. Walking as Re-Formative and Transgressive: Health, Pilgrimage, Trespass, Marching 6. Walking in the Downtown Eastside - Experiencing the WIBM as Participatory, Visual and Ethnographic Exercise Two: Walking, Sensing, Experiencing Part III: Imagining 7. Walking, Sex Work, and Community: Towards a Radical Democratic and Imaginative Space for addressing Sexual and Social Inequalities 8. The Phenomenology of Walking in a Garden 9. Walking Artists: Critical Dialogues and Imaginaries 10. Auto/Biographical Encounters in Time and Space - Roots and Routes Exercise Three: Walking and Imagining - Time/Memory/Making Conclusion: The Future of the Walking Interview as a Biographical Method Exercise Four: WIBM Exercise - Observing, Experiencing, Imagining The Walking Interview as a Biographical Method - Principles and Practice: A Framework